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| Same song different artist. Which ones do you love? LP Rickie Lee Jones cover of Jefferson Airplane's "Comin' Back to Me"Mathew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs cover of Bee Gees "Run to Me"Herbie Hancock feat. Corrine Bailey Rae's cover of Joni's "River"Amber Rubarth's cover of REM's "Losing My Religion"Ye... | |
| Pre-amp upgrade time? Check out Backert Labs, they specialize in preamps and they sound great. I've heard them in a number of systems and they always have impressed. They also are good for tube rolling if you are into that. This is a newer smaller company and they will... | |
| Cartridge for Technics SL-1200GAE How about the AT ART9, so beloved on another thread here? Cheers,Spencer | |
| Lumin A-1 or Lumin U1 I love the Lumin app for iPad which I use with microRendu. Intuitive, reliable, no glitches or freezing. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Looking for speaker ideas. All 3 are decent choices, all 3 better w/subwoofer for rock, especially the smaller stand mount models. I'd add Vandersteen and GoldenEar to the list. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Affordable Turntable Options Hunt at local garage sales & craigslist for a Technics SL1200 for a couple of hundred and then look at the KAB upgrades and similar upgrades. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Idiot trying to upgrade his system - likes the tube sound Are you willing to invest the time to rip your CDs from a computer to digital files? The best options are network attached storage drives that stream music to your DAC in the audio room. There are many threads here and at computeraudiophile that e... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Frank, very interesting stuff from Robert. It's funny in one sense as the 17D...17D3 all have a reputation for a more tipped up treble than the rest of the Dyna family. Does that imply that the others further up the line are too reticent on treble... | |
| Soekris ApS dac1101 another discrete R2R Multibit dac. @4hannons Vearing a bit off-topic, but the any dac fed by Mac Mini's USB would sound better with a USB isolator. A Sonore microRendu would sound better still, but it has only ethernet input and needs to be fed music that is either streamed via int... | |
| New Technics SL 1200 GAE Many headshells have the azimuth adjustment built-in. My Jelco, Yamamoto and many others. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Noise from Xfinity cable box Yeah, but X1 DVR and its voice remote offer fantastic functionality. They are multi-room devices, so move it to another room/tv and stream the dvr content off the box in the other room to the quiet little box in audio room. One concern is there mi... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Just read @chakster 's link to JLTI. One point I found curious. "Optimizing Moving Magnet cartridges can go as low as 2K Ohm...The rule is simple, the lower the Load Value, the higher the damping. Most cartridges are listened to under-damped and y... | |
| Bookshelf Speaker Recommendations Evolution Micro Ones is you could find used for $1500 would be my suggestion. Add a sub and you'll be in heaven. Reference 3A DeCapos or Totem Ones are both very nice too. All of these perform well above there price and are big step up IMHO from a... | |
| 12 ft pair of thick speakers cables?? Can they be cut downt to a 6 ft pair?? Good spades won't detract from sound quality, and over time might even oxidize less than bare wire. Grover will certainly be able to provide you with good spades. He is one good dude! Cheers,Spencer | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm Even if you proceed with your experiment, you might just find that you don't have enough counterweight on the back of the arm. Headshell weights are usually for use with extremely light cartridges, but that isn't the case with 103R. I'd suggest tr... |